Month: December 2017

Stratasys applied additive technology for composite tooling With traditional composite tooling manufacture acknowledged as being as extremely lengthy and costly process, Tim Schniepp, Senior Director of Composite Solutions at Stratasys, a global leader in applied additive technology solutions, looks at why the use of additive manufacturing offers a more favourable alternative. Believe it or not, there…

Indaero, a Spanish aerospace and engineering company, has secured a deal with multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 Airbus suppliers after it has successfully used FDM 3D printing to produce complex tools. The company manufactures aircraft panels for key customers in the aerospace industry, as well as offering design, engineering, tooling, welding and painting services. After investing…

Stratasys has announced it is launching an advanced 3D printing ‘Center of Excellence’ in partnership with SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. The centre is will see professionals undertake medical research into pre-surgical preparedness and patient treatment, and leverage Stratasys’ J750 machine which allows the printing of multiple materials in multiple colours. It will take…

How do you go about incubating products for your brand that help your customers realize and experience their passion for life? That’s the question that Rob Humphries, a prototype engineer at Thule, a company that makes accessories for travel – things like bike racks, jogging strollers and luggage – and his product teams have answered…

Swiss researchers devise equipment and method to print assemblies that can break down toxins or produce high-quality biopolymers from ink containing bacteria. The researchers, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), developed their ink using two bacteria as the active component: Pseudomonas putida, which can break down the very commonly-used but toxic…